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Michael Harro Siegel (born January 24, 1900 in Kassel , † December 6, 1985 in Göttingen ) was a German puppeteer .
Life
Michael Harro Siegel is a brother of the social worker Elisabeth Siegel . After completing an apprenticeship as a bookbinder , he studied German , theater studies and art history at the University of Munich . He also attended the art academies in Kassel and Berlin. He was married to the puppeteer Adelheid Hellwig.
From 1926 he went on tour with puppets that he designed and built himself in Germany and Europe. In Potsdam he had contact with the Werner Picht and Hellmut Becker families . In 1936 he was appointed professor of art education at the State Art School in Berlin appointed, where he from 1939 to 1943 also artistic director of the Reich Institute of Puppetry ( "Empire puppeteer") was with Adolf Reichwein worked, he already beyond the circle of Carl Heinrich Becker since knew the late 1920s. He had several friends in the Kreisau district .
In 1943 Harro Siegel accepted the call as professor for art education at the Werkkunstschule Braunschweig . He founded and ran a municipal puppet theater in Brunswick Richmond Castle . Since 1946 he was a lecturer for puppetry at the master school for creative craft . From 1964 to 1970 he took over the management of the Villa Romana artist foundation in Florence . In 1978 Siegel moved to Germany and settled in Göttingen, where he died in 1985. From the 1960s he belonged to the mystical Islamic movement Subud .
Siegel founded the international brotherhood of puppet players and in 1957 the week of international puppet shows in Braunschweig.
His figures are now in museums (e.g. in the puppet theater collection of the City of Munich in the Munich City Museum, in the Landesmuseum Kassel , in the Braunschweig City Museum , in the Museum for Puppet Theater Culture Bad Kreuznach), in the “ Stockholm Marionette Theater ” and in private ownership.
Fonts
- Puppets. Propylaea, Frankfurt am Main 1982.
- (Reprint from 1981) On puppet shows in Germany from 1933 to 1945. Puppen & Masken , Frankfurt 2008 ISBN 978-3-935011-18-1
- as editor: puppet show as magic key. Literary Association Braunschweig , Braunschweig 1962.
literature
- Hellmut Becker : Michael Harro Siegel, the puppet player , in: Contradictions endure , Piper, Munich 1992, pp. 258–262 (= commemorative speech on January 3, 1986)
- Luitgard Camerer: Siegel, Michael Harro. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 212 .
- Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 9. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-23160-1 , p. 310.
- Hans R. Purschke (Ed.) Archive for Puppet Theater History - No. 2 - Michael Harro Siegel.
- Ulrich Raulff : Circle without a master: Stefan Georges Nachleben , Beck, Munich 2009, p. 436ff.
- Lutz Tantow: Siegel, Michael Harro, Prof. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 567-568 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Harro Siegel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Pictures of the work of Harro Siegel
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siegel, Harro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Siegel, Michael Harro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German puppeteer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1985 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |